Reddit user tests Qwen coder models on a 16 GB laptop and asks what works best
DuinoTycoon · reddit · 2026-07-26
A Reddit user with a Ryzen 6650H laptop and 16 GB of RAM asks which local coding models are practical for small projects.
- They are testing Qwen 3.5 9B at Q8 and Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B at IQ2M.
- The MoE model appears roughly twice as fast for token generation.
- Offloading to the Radeon 660M iGPU slightly speeds up prompt reading in some cases, but often slows generation.
- They want advice on better coding models, whether further quantization is worth it, and what context window makes sense on limited hardware.
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